Arvind Kumar Sharma vs M/O Law And Justice And Company Affairs on 17 April, 2025
17. In rebuttal to the contentions of the counsel for the
respondents as well as the oral arguments, the learned
counsel for the applicant filed rejoinder reiterating the
grounds taken in the matter. The learned counsel stated that
the counter affidavit filed by the respondents does not deal
with the issue involved and the questions raised by the
applicant through his Original Application. The learned
counsel submits that his presumptive pay in the Rajasthan
Judicial Service, wherein, he was holding lien up to 22nd July
2006 and 25th April 2007 was higher than the pay fixed
under the present post and scale, and accordingly, the
applicant is entitled to draw the presumptive pay of his
substantive post in the Rajasthan Judicial Service. It is
further contended that the pay of the applicant ought to
have been fixed under FR 22, and not in the terms of the
scale of pay attached to the post of Assistant Government
Advocate but in the presumptive pay of the Rajasthan
Judicial Service in view of the fact that the applicant was
still holding a lien in the Rajasthan Judicial Service. The pay
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of the applicant is stated to be erroneously fixed without
consultation with the High Court of Rajasthan after his
appointment substantively in the post of Assistant
Government counsel in the Department of Legal affairs of
the Ministry of Law and Justice, thereby violating the
mandate prescribed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the
case of Guwahati High Court and another vs.
Kuladhar Phukan and Another (supra). As a result of
the failure on the part of the respondents to consult the
High Court of Rajasthan, the pay of the applicant was fixed
at four stages below the presumptive pay. The applicant was
promoted as Additional District and Sessions Judge vide
order dated 3rd December 1996 in the scale of 16400-20000
but was not relieved by respondent M/o law. The applicant
was also nominated by the Government of India to hold the
post of Chief Law Officer in Municipal Corporation of Delhi
in the pay scale of 16400-20000, which he held for almost
six years. However, the pay of the applicant was fixed by the
respondent in the Ministry of Law in utter disregard of the
rules vide order dated 12 June 2009 and further order dated
April 2012.